Mechamaniac

Man, good call on that Tamashii Nations stand. For $20 odd bucks it's a bullseye stand for the VF-0D.

Agreed. This is the same argument that drove me away from the RPF. It usually goes something like this.

Fan makes a model, unlicensed.

Fan makes a kit from his model, unlicensed.

Fan sells garage kit, unauthorized.

Garage kit gets bought and recast.

Fan finds out and spends an inordinate amount of time telling the world that someone stole his artwork or his IP.

Bottom line - Unless Big West authorized you to make and sell that kit, you're no better than the recaster who stole your work.

I realize that this is a part of fandom. Companies may never get around to making that model of X that we all so desire. So, we make it ourselves, and we decide to make copies of it available to other fans. Where the unbridled and (quite frankly) unforgivable hypocrisy comes in is when people start screaming that they've been wronged when someone steals the thing they were never authorized to sell in the first place. You may have made a beautiful model, but the minute you dropped it in silicone and started selling casts of it, you violated the IP rights of the company that owns the original designs.

It's really just that simple, so get over yourself.

I really like the SV51 in the anime, but for me the giant square intakes on the toy ruined the whole look. Maybe Arcadia will do better.

I'm in for a VF-0S.

Thanks, this is the stand sans the arms

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B8IWJXO/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2/189-0623656-7049810?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=06MFJBS563TV6WWQY8WS&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1944579842&pf_rd_i=B003F256QI

Nice! Was wondering that myself. And....ordered.

Slightly separate note, but having the VF-0D prompted me to rewatch the series and wow had I forgotten what a total piece of crap the ending of that series was. It brought back all the feelings of WTF that I had managed to suppress over the last 10 years.

Anyway, the toy is cool!

Point made guys. Move along or take it to PM.

Don't need a missile pack. We got enough missiles to last the next 5 releases with the 19

That's great....IF you have a 19. I don't so....

So I just dug out some missiles from my 1/60v2 VF-1's and they do not fit. The pegs on those are 2.2mm while the pegs on the 0D missile pods are 1.9mm.

Way to go Arcadia. When are you releasing the $100.00 extra weapons pack.....

Nope...this one...also found on the internetz.

The more I think about it, It's almost Tardis blue. I wish I had my Tardis cookie jar here at home, I'd take a comparison pic.

Got mine, a few impressions:

• Mine came with an extra pitot tube? Is this the norm?
• Kinda odd that there are more hard points on the wings than missile pods packaged with the valk.
• I like the outer hardpoints for the missiles. Very solid and the attachment point is nearly seamless.
• The ankles on mine were SUPER tight. I had to work to get them to extend.
• This thing is HUGE compared to the VF-1.
• Nowhere close to Max blue. See the pic. Sorry for the crap lighting, one of these days I'm going to learn how to take decent pics.

Wife just picked mine up from PO. The long wait until 1500 begins.....

And typically.....the mailman came while my wife was off snagging kids at school....left a note....pickup tomorrow.....sigh.....

Mine's due in today. I don't have a Max 1J but I do have a Virgin Road 1D. I'll snap a pic with that one for comparison.

I'm speechless. After watching this come together for the last ... what has it been, nearly 10 years? .... it's utterly amazing.

Got my shipping notice as well.

So, same (ginormous) size as the original VF-0's.

Son of a bitch is HUGE!

Which kind of irks me BTW. I guess we can make an argument that our first ham-fisted attempts at OT were large and bulky and had been much more streamlined and miniaturized by the time we got to the VF-1. But we all know it's just retcon

Anybody dared to transform theirs yet?

I'd also be interested to see where this one stacks up size-wise to the Yamato VF-0 which was basically a re-skin of the 1/48.

Just paid for mine through HLJ.

It's a kind of magic!

Does that mean that the only way to kill a Valk is to cut it's head off?

I guess OT allowed the earth to develop jets that transform to robots but did nothing for the science and chemistry of paint!

True, which is doubly odd since these things can also crash into stuff at high speeds and not even sustain dents or scratches.

I'm curious to know if it takes months or years to cause that kind of weathering to paint on aircraft stationed on carriers....

I'd imagine it takes less time than you think with the high and supersonic speed causing heat and friction on the paint and pulling various fluids out of every seam and flap and dragging it along the paint job.

Hell, it's a two seater. If nothing else, I'll take the Max and Millia pilots out of my Virgin Road 1D and pretend they got married a few years earlier....